Dr. Adriana Heimann-Rios, center in a purple jacket, is leading her ECU colleagues, Dr. Stephen Moysey, Dr. Alex Manda and Dr. Eduardo “Edu” Leorri, and a team of more than two dozen multi-institutional researchers on a new $7.5 million, five-year National Science Foundation grant to help communities solve geoscience issues. (ECU Photo by Rhett Butler)